Kirill Meretskov
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Kirill Afanasievich Meretskov was a Soviet military commander. Having joined the Communist Party in 1917, he served in the Red Army from 1920. During the Winter War of 1939–1940 against Finland, he ha
Meretskov in 1945
Meretskov, after landing at the Khvoynaya airfield, 1942
Operation Iskra, January 1943
Meretskov (left) with Marshals Rodion Malinovsky (center) and Aleksandr Vasilevsky, at an airfield in Dalian, China
Siege of Leningrad
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The Siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the co
Kirill Meretskov
…of the invasion of the Soviet Union. Released two months later, he returned to command the 7th Army and later the Volkhov Front during the 1941–1944 siege of Leningrad. He commanded the Karelian Front from February 1944, notably the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive of October 1944. From April 1945 he was assigned to the Far…
Soviet anti-aircraft battery in Leningrad near Saint Isaac's Cathedral, 1941
German soldiers in front of burning houses and a church, near Leningrad in 1941
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb with Erich Hoepner in September 1941
Women from Leningrad digging an anti-tank ditch, July 1941